Changyong Pan

Technical Review on Chinese Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Standard and Measurements on Some Working Modes

Technical details of the recently announced Chinese Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Standard which defines the physical layer transmission protocol including the frame structure, channel coding and modulation schemes are discussed in this paper. The major differences between Chinese DTV standard in multi-carrier working mode and DVB-T standard, all occupying the same 8 MHz baseband bandwidth, are addressed. The measurement results of several working modes showing satisfactory receiving performance of high and standard definition TV signals under both indoor and outdoor environments for the fixed and mobile reception are also presented

On the synchronization techniques for wireless OFDM systems

The latest research works on the synchronization scheme for either continuous transmission mode or burst packet transmission mode for the wireless OFDM communications are overviewed in this paper. The typical algorithms dealing with the symbol timing synchronization, the carrier frequency synchronization as well as the sampling clock synchronization are briefly introduced and analyzed. Three improved methods for the fine symbol timing synchronization in frequency domain are also proposed, with several key issues on the synchronization for the OFDM systems discussed.

Iterative padding subtraction of the PN sequence for the TDS-OFDM over broadcast channels

PN-sequence padding (PNP) TDS-OFDM transmission scheme has recently been proposed as an appealing alternative to the traditional cyclic prefix (CP) OFDM technology as it can provide significant improvement in the spectrum efficiency. In this paper, an iterative method is introduced to subtract the PN sequence padding for the TDS-OFDM systems to mitigate the residual inter symbol interference (ISI) from the imperfect channel estimation, and the inherent channel estimation techniques are also performed to track the channel changes. Results show that this iterative algorithm can effectively remove the impact from the residual ISI on the slow-fading broadcast channels, even in the presence of very large channel delays in the single-frequency simulcast networks (SFN).

A combined code acquisition and symbol timing recovery method for TDS-OFDM

A novel timing recovery method which combines code acquisition and symbol timing recovery for TDS-OFDM (time domain synchronous OFDM) is developed. The method is based on the searching and tracking of the correlation peaks of the PN sequences embedded in the signals. Simulations show that this algorithm has very good performance for both AWGN and multipath channels, even when a small frequency offset exists in the sampling clock of the receiver.

A Simplified Equalization Method for Dual PN-Sequence Padding TDS-OFDM Systems

Time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) modulation scheme can improve the spectrum efficiency over the traditional cyclic prefix (CP) OFDM technology at the cost of computational efforts due to the iterative padding subtraction (IPS) at the receiver to mitigate the inter symbol interference caused by the multipath propagation. In this paper, a simplified equalization scheme is presented for the dual PN-sequence padding (DPNP) TDS-OFDM systems. Although the length of the padded PN sequence needed is double compared to what needed by the IPS, leading to slight decrease of the spectrum efficiency, this method can save about 90% computational effort in practice compared with that of the IPS algorithm. It also outperforms IPS method under the time-varying fading channel in terms of symbol error rate and maximum Doppler frequency, verified by the computer simulation.

Compressive Sensing Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems Under Long Delay Channels

Time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) has advantages in spectral efficiency and synchronization. However, its iterative interference cancellation algorithm will suffer from performance loss especially under severely fading channels with long delays and has difficulty supporting high-order modulations like 256 QAM, which may not accommodate the emerging ultra-high definition television service. To solve this problem, a channel estimation method for OFDM under the framework of compressive sensing (CS) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, by exploiting the signal structure of recently proposed time-frequency training OFDM scheme, the auxiliary channel information is obtained. Secondly, we propose the auxiliary information based subspace pursuit (A-SP) algorithm to utilize a very small amount of frequency-domain pilots embedded in the OFDM block for the exact channel estimation. Moreover, the obtained auxiliary channel information is adopted to reduce the complexity of the classical SP algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the CS-based OFDM outperforms the conventional dual pseudo noise padded OFDM and CS-based TDS-OFDM schemes in both static and mobile environments, especially when the channel length is close to or even larger than the guard interval length, where the conventional schemes fail to work completely.

Design of a 3780-point IFFT processor for TDS-OFDM

This correspondence presents a design of 3780-point IFFT processor for TDS-OFDM terrestrial DTV transmitter using FPGA. It demonstrates the algorithm design and error analysis of the processor, which can achieve a throughput of 7.56M complex IFFT operations per second. This design meets the signal-to-quantization noise ratio requirement of the TDS-OFDM system. It consists of two FPGA and one dual-port RAM. The data stream pipeline algorithm is implemented.

Low-complexity equalization for TDS-OFDM systems over doubly selective channels

Time variation of a multipath channel leads to interchannel interference (ICI) in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. It results in the performance degradation, therefore, limits the achievable throughput. Some methods have been proposed to suppress ICI, unfortunately, they are either computationally complex or at the price of spectral efficiency. In this paper, a low-complexity equalization method for time-domain synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) systems is proposed under the assumption that the channel impulse response (CIR) varies in a linear fashion within a block period. The rationale behind our method is to use a finite power series expansion for the inverse of the equalization matrix. This method provides a desired tradeoff between the performance and the processing complexity. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively mitigate ICI caused by the channel variations with low computational complexity.

Novel synchronization for TDS-OFDM-based digital television terrestrial broadcast systems

As an effective technique for combating multipath fading and for high-bit-rate transmission over wireless channels, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is extensively used in modern digital television terrestrial broadcasting (DTTB) systems to support high performance bandwidth-efficient multimedia services. In this paper, novel synchronization schemes, including timing, frequency offset estimation, and phase error tracking, are proposed for the time domain synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) based DTTB systems. Simulations under different channel situations verify the efficiency of the proposed schemes.

Analysis on LUT Based Predistortion Method for HPA with Memory

Most existing methods for HPA predistortion with memory effects are based on polynomial or indirect learning structures. Few papers concern about the memory predistortion with LUT based techniques. Based on the previously presented method, we propose an improved two-dimensional LUT indexing method for HPA predistortion with memory. Computer simulations and corresponding analysis demonstrate that the proposed method has more effective predistortion capabilities but lower computational complexity